Making it Visible

With Şeyda we are back in Turkey.
Quite difficult not to miss our life in Sweden.
We hope that movies will be a bit helpful.
Soooooooooo, as we used to do, I dropped by our favorite DVD shop 'Filim Hakan' which unexpectedly from a local shop, has a wide spectrum of movies.
To be honest, I dont like downloading movies; might sound a bit stupid for some though. I like spending time in the shop, going through the movies, talking to the owner, getting his opinions, and listening to mostly quite stupid comments of the other customers :) way too enjoying than waiting for the downloading status to get 100%.

Anyways, after spending 20 minutes I rented the movie 'Dark Blue Almost Black' by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo.
Great movie! The story, acting, and the pictures...So natural and so real. Loved it, but was soooo heavy for us, as in some ways very similar to what we have been experiencing in the last years. It is about the struggle of a 25-year-old boy trying to find a way out from his life which somehow he got stucked with but not like escaping I think, rather trying to get what he had aimed and worked for so that things would change into a more positive direction.

After the movie, we talked with Şeyda how cinema is powerful in making things visible. For instance, I have noticed that in general when I talk with people about how hard it is with mom's situation and all neither I am good at telling it well nor they are good at feeling it. But a movie can do that. It locks the audience to the story with visuals, narration, and the audio. As the audience you are an outsider but still very much like an insider. Sometimes it introduces you sth. new and sometimes it just makes sth you havent noticed, although you should have, visible.
May be we should try to find the movies that tells what we want to tell and make others watch that, might be easier than trying to tell it ourselves.